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In advance of Valentine's Day the good folks at the San Diego Union Tribune's food section conducted a tasting of chocolate chips earlier this week. Not being much of a baker, I'd opt for champagne truffles as way to express affection through chocolate rather than chocolate chips.But let's get back to the paper's survey. The eight panelists sampled the chips in cookies and out of hand, one of my favorite ways to, ahem, "test" chocolate chips.
The chocolatey morsels were evaluated for flavor, texture and performance in a cookie. And the winner for best performance in a cookie (and overall winner) was Guittard Real Semisweet Chocolate Chips. I've never heard of Guittard but a quick Google search revealed that the E. Guittard is a purveyor of some mighty fine sounding gourmet chocolate bars, including Venezuelan Sur de Lago.
The runner-up in the tasting was an old-school classic: Nestle Toll House Semisweet Chocolate Morsels.
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2-09-2007 @1:31PM David said... Runner up was Nestle?? Doesn't sound like much of a competition. If you want to find some REALLY good chocolates (including E. Guittard), take a look at www.chocosphere.com . That's the place to get serious chocolate.
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2-09-2007 @2:00PM cybele said... Holy Moly! You've never heard of Guittard? As David said, get thee to Chocosphere. They make some of the best chocolate in the world.
Though you may not have heard of it, chances are you've been eating it for ages, they provide chocolate of all kinds for some of the best chocolatiers in the world.
Whenever I see Guittard chips on sale (and sometimes for less than $2 a bag) I stock up - great quality, excellent taste and texture.
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2-09-2007 @5:05PM Bruce Dearborn Walker said... Sam's club used to have a ten pound bag of Guittard for about twelve bucks. Everybody got chocolate truffles for Christmas, and I spent, like, another ten or so on cream, flavorings, and those cute little fluted cups.
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2-18-2007 @9:43AM rebecca h said... Yes, these are the finest chips. They are the chips in my favorite baking mix, Matisse & Jack's energy bars. http://www.MatisseAndJacks.com
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